Economic empowerment means making the health care available for everyone, making loans accessible to all classes, providing free education to lower-class people, etc. So it brings a noticeable impact on society thus reducing poverty in the long run.

But the reality is different, all those things are exclusive to the upper class, and if you want to become one then you need to make money but to make money you need all these access, ao it's a spiral with no way out unless you give all in and you have a chance of 1/100 to get out of the spiral.